1 vs 100 Updates?

[kimberini]

Has anyone heard anything back from a 1 vs. 100 group audition?

[thgames65]

[quote name=\'kimberini\' post=\'124040\' date=\'Jul 13 2006, 01:50 AM\']
Has anyone heard anything back from a 1 vs. 100 group audition?
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Two weeks ago I had a second interview with two of the casting coordinators.  I gave a short spiel about myself, answered a few questions of a personal nature, then took a short verbal multiple choice quiz.

I have not received another contact, but I know of other candidates who are getting their 3rd interviews this week.


Tim H.

[GiraffeBoy]

[quote name=\'kimberini\' post=\'124040\' date=\'Jul 12 2006, 11:50 PM\'] Has anyone heard anything back from a 1 vs. 100 group audition? [/quote]Nothing, and that was four weeks ago. Second/third interviews already? I heard the tape dates are in August, so I'm getting antsy. (:/)

--Charlie, B.S., Accounting (it's official, finally!)

[mmb5]

Kevin Olmstead, Ed Toutant, David Legler and I (one of these things is not like the other, one of these things isn't the same) attended a group audition on Monday.  They had several callbacks as well (they all played the game as we acted as the mob).

They were also trying out two hosts yesterday, Mark DeCarlo and Jane Lynch.  The former I would think people know, the latter is a "that girl" actress with over 100 credits probably best known as the lesbian dog handler in Best in Show.  She was very funny but had trouble with game mechanics.  

The format (as of now) is a 15 step ladder (where have we seen this before):
10-19 knocked out of the mob: $10,000
20-29: $20,000
30-39: $30,000
40-49: $40,000
50-54: $50,000
55-59: $60,000
60-64: $70,000
65-69: $80,000
70-74: $90,000
75-79: $100,000
80-84: $200,000
85-89: $300,000
90-94: $400,000
95-99: $500,000
100: $3,000,000

Questions were three-part multiple choice with three "panic buttons".  The panics had to be used in order:
1. Question is reworded to be easier.
2. Either you are given two chances to answer (this was done in Mark's tryout) or one choice is taken away (Jane's tryout).
3. You could leave with 10% of your accumulated earnings.  (You can't walk away like Millionaire).  The mob would get nothing in this instance.

Apparently the mob is your only chance to be a returning champion.  As long as you never get a question wrong, you are not removed, even if the contestant loses.  New mob people replace the people who got one wrong in a previous game.


--Mike

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'124509\' date=\'Jul 19 2006, 11:31 AM\']
They were also trying out two hosts yesterday, Mark DeCarlo and Jane Lynch.  The former I would think people know, the latter is a "that girl" actress with over 100 credits probably best known as the lesbian dog handler in Best in Show.  She was very funny but had trouble with game mechanics. [/quote]

Lynch is currently starring in the Lifetime improvised sitcom "Lovespring International," as if that causes a problem (and since it's not exactly burning up the cable Nielsens, it probably won't be).  Back in her Chicago acting days, she did spend some time on a local home shopping show called "America's Shopping Place," so she has done semi-spontaneous television--but that almost 20 years ago.

ObGameShow:  She played Carol Brady in Annoyance Theatre's "Real Live Brady Bunch" (under the stage name of Greta Wesson, since she was a member of the Equity stage actors union then and the Annoyance was and is a non-Equity company)--their curtain-raiser was "The Real Live Game Show," later to be bastardized for Stone Stanley as "Bobcat's Bigass Show."

[itiparanoid13]

So let's see.  They made this even more like Millionaire AND the top two amounts you're getting are either $50,000 (if you stop) or $3,000,000.  Can someone explain to me why we just can't do a formula type thing?  It's not that hard to display.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'124512\' date=\'Jul 19 2006, 09:48 AM\']
Can someone explain to me why we just can't do a formula type thing?  It's not that hard to display.
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The average American doesn't like to do math. Period.

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'124512\' date=\'Jul 19 2006, 12:48 PM\']
So let's see.  They made this even more like Millionaire AND the top two amounts you're getting are either $50,000 (if you stop) or $3,000,000.  Can someone explain to me why we just can't do a formula type thing?  It's not that hard to display.
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Exactly. What the hell is the point of having big money on a chain that you will never pay out?

I said it last month after trying out , and i'll say it again. NBC doesn't have a clue as to what they want, Producers don't have a clue as to how to do this show, and Viewers won't have a clue as to why it won't get picked up behind 5 eps.

[itiparanoid13]

Here's the really terrible thing.  You eliminated 95 people.  4 are left, and you miss a question.  You walk with nothing and each of the 4 mob members wins $125,000.  If you stop, you get $50,000.  Something is SERIOUSLY wrong with that picture.  Honestly, NBC.  Just get Millionaire if you're going to shit all over this format.

And as for the math thing, I may incredibly wrong (which happens more often than not), but people at home won't need to do math.  Just flash it up on screen, say what he got, and put it in the bank.  It's not hard to explain.  "If you get a question right, we'll give you $X divided by mob members left per player eliminated."  People at home aren't going to be doing it at home.  Just put a little screen
<$X/100 = $X>, add that to the bank, and move on.  It would take 5 seconds to do.  Instead, this is turning into a hybrid from hell of Miljoenenjacht and Millionaire.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'124516\' date=\'Jul 19 2006, 10:24 AM\']
And as for the math thing, I may incredibly wrong (which happens more often than not), but people at home won't need to do math.  Just flash it up on screen, say what he got, and put it in the bank.  It's not hard to explain.  "If you get a question right, we'll give you $X divided by mob members left per player eliminated."  People at home aren't going to be doing it at home.  Just put a little screen
<$X/100 = $X>, add that to the bank, and move on.  It would take 5 seconds to do.
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Right, but that's not the point. The point is, even if you DO flash that up on screen, Joe Sixpack is not going to understand how you arrive at that number. And if they don't know how you arrive at it, they won't be interested in it. And if they're not interested in it, they're gonna say "Bored now" and change the channel.

[mmb5]

The graphic they used at the tryout, which I assume will be snazzed up for TV, looked something like this, with the % sign representing a stick-figure person:

 % % % % % $3,000,000
 % % % % % $500,000
 % % % % % $400,000
...
% % % % % % % % % % $20,000
% % % % % % % % % % $10,000

When mob members were eliminated, they were eliminated from this screen as well.  They did add one neat twist, the people icons are removed more slowly as you get closer to the dollar figure, so there was some fake drama.  It also looks like they'll be borrowing something from 21 -- models and cash displays.  Remember my rule, go to a taping, look for the winner and his NBC tote bag, and rob him on the way out.


--Mike

[NickS]

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'124516\' date=\'Jul 19 2006, 12:24 PM\']
Here's the really terrible thing.  You eliminated 95 people.  4 are left, and you miss a question.  You walk with nothing and each of the 4 mob members wins $125,000.  If you stop, you get $50,000.  Something is SERIOUSLY wrong with that picture.  Honestly, NBC.  Just get Millionaire if you're going to shit all over this format.

And as for the math thing, I may incredibly wrong (which happens more often than not), but people at home won't need to do math.  Just flash it up on screen, say what he got, and put it in the bank.  It's not hard to explain.  "If you get a question right, we'll give you $X divided by mob members left per player eliminated."  People at home aren't going to be doing it at home.  Just put a little screen
<$X/100 = $X>, add that to the bank, and move on.  It would take 5 seconds to do.  Instead, this is turning into a hybrid from hell of Miljoenenjacht and Millionaire.
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OH THE SEAN HANNITY!

Could y'all stop crapping on a product that hasn't even gone to production yet?

Funny that I'm going to snark while Chris has a great point put eloquently... but jeez, Alex -- stop the doom and gloom before it's out.

Also -- check your accuracy since I'm seeing discrepancies between $50K and $500K.  Which is it?

It's not just in the game show realm that I've seen this happen; fanbois shat over Batman Begins, Superman Returns and X3 before it came out and they bat .333 on their smark rants.

And Chris is dead on regarding Joe Sixpack; DoND works because people can pick it up easily; 1v100 needs a money tree here to have a chance.  Sad as it may sound, it's the truth.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'TeppanYaki\' post=\'124529\' date=\'Jul 19 2006, 04:42 PM\']
Also -- check your accuracy since I'm seeing discrepancies between $50K and $500K.  Which is it?
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No, he's right here. The rules allow the player to walk with 10% of whatever level he's at. The main pot is what the Mob splits when the player craps out. Which means a player at level 14 can either walk for 10% of $500K (which is $50K), or play on for three mil. And if he's wrong, the MOB splits the whole 500K.

What the naysayers are missing is twofold:

1) It's not just a 1 in 3 shot. Those last five players, ostensibly, are pretty bright, and you have to keep answering questions until they ALL crap out. That could happen in one question, or it could take ten. That said:

2) Pot odds, as I've said a billion times about DoND, don't mean a damned thing in a one-off situation.

I don't have high hopes for this thing, but it's for other reasons. I don't know that the payout structure is the flaw here.

[itiparanoid13]

Ha, I should take offense for the Shaun Hannity thing.  OK.  At this point, I do completely agree with the point about the money tree.  I think for an American market it is necessary.  But the big issue for me is that you can play an incredible game and eliminate 99 people, and yet, the mob member will earn more money if you miss than if you quit.  I did make a mistake with my math originally.  I lumped the one hot seat player out from the 100 other people.  

I know it's a peevish thing, but the scoring is just bugging the hell out of me.  It seems like the $3,000,000 is just there for show.  Obviously, I know it is to get a lot more viewers out of it, but what great drama is there for, in this format, gambling $50,000 to win $3,000,000?  Even if you could stop with $500K, the jump from $500,000 to $3,000,000 is a bit much.  

I just think they are messing with the key elements that made this game enjoyable in the Dutch format.  Having the "mob" heckle the hot seat player is just like adding the live audience to Weakest Link for me.  It's turning a hard quiz show into a comedy show.  I wouldn't bitch about this game as much if there was a tiny bit of originality.  But as it is right now, it's Millionaire with the audience members playing.  I much prefer the first money chain format, where each escape lowered the top prize, than this one.  It at least gave some logical reason for the $3,000,000: odds are it was going to tumble drastically.  Here, it seems tacked on for the hell of it.

Edit: After re-reading my thing, I kinda forgot about the 1 remaining mob member in the first paragraphi situation when 99 people are eliminated.  That does mean that the mob member played an incredible game also and deserves the money as much as the hot seat contestant, but the giant difference from the hot seat's $50,000 and the mob's $500,000 is my issue in that scenario.

[J.R.]

Personally, what would be wrong with something simple like "$2500 for every mob member you eliminate. Eliminate all 100, you get $1,000,000"?

-Joe R.